Kevin Feige Dishes on ‘Avengers: Endgame Success
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel boss Kevin Feige said he still hasn’t gotten his arms around the phenomenal success of Avengers: Engdame.
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“There were a lot of expectations behind Black Panther and Captain Marvel and [Avengers:] Infinity War and [Avengers:] Endgame… To meet those expectations, and exceed them in many cases? I’m still processing it, to be honest with you,” said Feige. “Because for five years, our goal and our superstition was delivering on the promise of a finale in a way that wasn’t expected, in a way that people weren’t anticipating. And seeing audiences around the world respond to these characters that we’ve lived with for 10-plus years, they’ve lived with for 10-plus years, was a really remarkably emotional experience.”
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The ballcap-clad 46-year-old was the architect of an unprecedented 11-year series of 22 intertwining superhero films, a venture which has been described as “one of the most ambitious undertakings in Hollywood history,” and the massive commercial success of which has been called “a performance run that will one day be looked upon as nothing short of historic” — indeed, all 22 films topped the box-office in their opening weekend, and collectively grossed $8.2 billion domestically and $21.5 billion worldwide. Now the most commercially successful producer in Hollywood history, he has been called a “dominant producer voice in a way that Hollywood has not seen since the golden era”… “the ultimate geek done-good”… “a movie producer who is a legitimate household name” and “one of the key figures, if not the key figure, in the modern Hollywood landscape.”
Feige also said:
It was the greatest thing that ever happened us… If Disney hadn’t bought us, you wouldn’t have seen the movies we’ve made since then. For sure. I just don’t think it would have been possible.”
That’s funny.
After all, it was Walt Disney who once said, “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
Material from ComicBook.com was used in this report.
